TELEGRAM TO KH. G. RAKOVSKY[1]

Written:Written on February 24, 1921Published:First published in 1959 in LeninMiscellany XXXVI.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

      page89b.Translated:Yuri SdobnikovTranscription\Markup:R. CymbalaPublic Domain:Lenin Internet ArchiveYou may freely copy, distribute,
	display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and
	commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet
	Archive” as your source.•README

ToRakovsky,coded

Rakovsky,Kharkov.Re: Your No. 672

Inview of the extremely grave food supply situation
at the centre, I propose: three-quarters to be brought down
here, one-quarter left for the cities and workers of the
Ukraine; the peasants must be rewarded at any cost, within
the bounds of possibility, and if we have nothing, then
by making purchases abroad for gold or oil. If you disagree
with this, make another concession to the peasants, but
bear in mind that the food crisis over here is desperate and
downright
dangerous.[2]

[1]Atthe top Lenin wrote and then crossed out: “Comrade 
 Tsyurupa: your opinion of my draft reply? 24.II.Lenin.”—Ed.

[2]Thetelegram was sent on February 25, 1921, in reply to Kh. G.    

Rakovsky’s telegram No. 672 of February 22, 1921, informing       

Lenin about the existence in the Ukraine of food stocks           

which he proposed should be used mainly for local needs, and a    

part of them for commodity exchange with other countries in       

return for agricultural machinery and implements for the    

Ukraine, and requested Lenin’s opinion on this question.